Grad Students being disappeared by ICE

nycfan

nycfan

Curator/Moderator
ZZL Supporter
Messages
16,659
Seems like this deserves its own thread at this point (as opposed to continuing in the current events catch-all

 
altmin said:
Click to expand...

Tufts Graduate Student Detained by Federal Immigration Authorities​

Rumeysa Ozturk is the latest international student targeted by the Trump administration​


GIFT LINK 🎁 —> https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/tuf...0a?st=CfHnWF&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink

IMG_5921.jpeg

“… ICE records don’t show which detention center Ozturk is being held in. Khanbabai said even a day after the detainment, the government hasn’t charged Ozturk or told Khanbabai where her client is.

“This is incredibly bizarre and concerning,” Khanbabai said. …”
 
nycfan said:

​

Rumeysa Ozturk is the latest international student targeted by the Trump administration​


GIFT LINK 🎁 —> https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/tuf...0a?st=CfHnWF&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink

IMG_5921.jpeg

“… ICE records don’t show which detention center Ozturk is being held in. Khanbabai said even a day after the detainment, the government hasn’t charged Ozturk or told Khanbabai where her client is.

“This is incredibly bizarre and concerning,” Khanbabai said. …”
Click to expand...

US immigration officials detain doctoral student at University of Alabama​

Justification for arrest not clear as Trump administration increasingly targets students for arrest and deportation

www.theguardian.com

US immigration officials detain doctoral student at University of Alabama

Justification for arrest not clear as Trump administration increasingly targets students for arrest and deportation
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

“…
The Crimson White, a student newspaper at the University of Alabama, reported on the arrest, saying the targeted student was detained at their home early on Tuesday morning. The individual is Iranian and was in the US on a student visa and studying mechanical engineering, the newspaper said. The university’s College Democrats group said in a statement that Trump and Ice “have struck a cold, vicious dagger through the heart of UA’s international community”.

It was not immediately clear on Wednesday evening if the arrested student had a lawyer.

Alex House, a university spokesperson, said its international student and scholar services center was available to assist students with concerns: “International students studying at the university are valued members of the campus community.”

But House’s statement added that the university “has and will continue to follow all immigration laws and cooperate with federal authorities”. …”
 

Immigration officials silent after another graduate student detained – this time, at the University of Minnesota​


amp.cnn.com

University of Minnesota: Immigration officials silent after another graduate student detained | CNN

Local, state and national leaders are demanding answers from immigration enforcement after the detention of yet another university student.
amp.cnn.com amp.cnn.com

“… The detainment comes as several foreign nationalsaffiliated with prestigious American universities have been arrested amid the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. The series of arrests and deportation proceedings the Trump administration has brought against students and scholars has sent shock waves across the academic community and raised concerns about the protection of free speech.

It is unclear where the University of Minnesota student is being held, but delayed communication from ICE about students’ whereabouts has happened in other cases this month. Like the University of Minnesota student, several were detained near their homes.

Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist at Columbia University, was detained outside his New York apartment, taken to New Jersey and then transported to Louisiana. “I felt like Mahmoud had been kidnapped from our home, and no one could tell me where he was or what was happening to him,” his wife Noor Abdalla said in a statement of support.

Khan Suri, an Indian national in the US for doctoral research at Georgetown University, was detained by ICE officials in Chantilly, Virginia, and sent to a temporary holding facility in Louisiana before getting transferred to Prairieland Detention Center in Texas. “ICE agents came in the night, took him captive, taking him from his wife and children, and hauled him away to an unknown location before transferring him to an ICE detention facility in Louisiana, far from his family and attorneys,” lawyer Nermeen Arastu said.

Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk was taken near her home in Massachusetts but also ultimately ended up in Louisiana. Her friends, family and attorneys remained unable to locate or contact her for about 24 hours after her arrest, an amended habeas corpus petition said.

The Department of Homeland Security declined to comment on the University of Minnesota case, deferring to ICE, which did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment. …”
 
If they can deny first amendment rights and prejudge guilt by association for green card holders, they can do it for citizens. They appear to be applying an overly broad definition to “people that are supportive of movements that run counter” to U.S. foreign policy.

 If we let them get away with it now they will soon use this bullshit standard against citizens who simply openly oppose them politically. Just watch.
 
nycfan said:


1743342137410.jpeg
Click to expand...

Just a side comment on this. She’s been in the US lawfully for at least 11 years and probably more. She was the valedictorian of her high school class. She’s at a top notch university. Why the hell is she not a citizen yet (assuming she wants to be)? One of the biggest problems with our f’ed up immigration system is we make it so damn hard for legal immigrants to become citizens.
 
nycfan said:


Click to expand...

How is this any different from what used to happen in places like Russia? People would just be taken off the streets by Russian police and detained, sometimes for years or their entire life, in gulags - essentially political prisons for people critical of or seen as a threat to the ruling regime. We have people who are here legally - and who in some cases have spent their entire life or most of it living in the USA - being forcibly taken from college campuses and flown (often with no notice to their family, spouses/girlfriend/boyfriend, classmates) to a prison in Louisiana that increasingly sounds like an American gulag. And this is happening with them being denied basic rights like an attorney, and in some cases it's happening against the express rulings of federal judges, and in some cases these people are being deported to places like El Salvador (that they're not even from) and placed into that country's terrible for-profit prisons. It's utterly appalling and shameful and ought to make any American disgusted.

I wonder what the defense of our resident Trumpers and bosiders is to all this - I can certainly guess.
 
Last edited:
Here's the relevant statute Rubio is relying on, by the way:

After the issuance of a visa or other documentation to any alien, the consular officer or the Secretary of State may at any time, in his discretion, revoke such visa or other documentation. Notice of such revocation shall be communicated to the Attorney General, and such revocation shall invalidate the visa or other documentation from the date of issuance: Provided, That carriers or transportation companies, and masters, commanding officers, agents, owners, charterers, or consignees, shall not be penalized under section 1323(b) of this title for action taken in reliance on such visas or other documentation, unless they received due notice of such revocation prior to the alien's embarkation. There shall be no means of judicial review (including review pursuant to section 2241 of title 28 or any other habeas corpus provision, and sections 1361 and 1651 of such title) of a revocation under this subsection, except in the context of a removal proceeding if such revocation provides the sole ground for removal under section 1227(a)(1)(B) of this title.

So by the clear text of the statute, judicial review IS available if there are no other grounds for removal (there aren't).

Also, the INA does not preempt the constitution.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top